Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of The Strain season 2… Once again I’m late to the party with fleeting impressions of episode seven. After another blinding forty minutes of television my conclusion is simple. The Strain was worth every penny they paid to adapt these contemporary tomes. Bouncing back and forth between ancient Rome […]
Movie Review – Digging for Fire (2015)
Digging for Fire, 2015. Directed by Joe Swanberg. Starring Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell, Sam Elliott, Chris Messina, Ron Livingston, and Jude Swanberg. SYNOPSIS: The discovery of a bone and a gun send a husband and wife on separate adventures over the course of a weekend. Digging for […]
Movie Review – The Transporter Refueled (2015)
The Transporter Refueled, 2015. Directed by Camille Delamarre Starring Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Radivoje Bukvic, Anatole Tubman, Gabriella Wright, Loan Chabanol and Tatiana Pajkovic. SYNOPSIS: In the south of France, former special-ops mercenary Frank Martin enters into a game of chess with a femme-fatale and her three sidekicks who are looking for revenge against a […]
Movie Review – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, 2015. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Starring Olivia Cooke, Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Jon Bernthal, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon. SYNOPSIS: High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a […]
Comic Book Review – Poseidon IX #1
Jessie Robertson reviews Poseidon IX #1… Journey to Triton, where luxury is a cyborg’s reward for worship of their God-King Poseidon. But in blue oceans lurks a sleeping terror-from before the Ascension, before even civilization as we know it! We open with a prologue that grips you as soon as you read its details: An […]
Movie Review – Buttercup Bill (2015)
Buttercup Bill, 2015 Directed by Remy Bennett and Emilie Richard-Froozan. Starring Remy Bennett, Evan Louison, Mallory June, Pauly Lingerfelt and Monroe Robertson. SYNOPSIS: The psycho-sexual romance of Patrick and Pernilla- mutually obsessed soul mates clinging to childhood secrets. Closer to twins separated at birth than friends or lovers, they express love through sexual games of jealousy […]
Movie Review – Turbo Kid (2015)
Turbo Kid, 2015. Written and directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell. Starring Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside, Edwin Wright, Aaron Jeffery, Romano Orzri and Orphée Ladouceur. SYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a comic book fan dons the persona of his favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord. […]
Comic Book Review – Doctor Who: Four Doctors #4
Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who: Four Doctors #4… The Doctors come face to face with the shocking identity of their deadly foes! We’ve hit the penultimate chapter of this Doctor Who event from Titan Comics. Doctor Who: Four Doctors from Paul Cornell has certainly found its place and in the last issue of this weekly special […]
Film4 FrightFest 2015 Review – Curve (2015)
Curve, 2015 Directed by Iain Softley Starring Julianne Hough, Teddy Sears SYNOPSIS: A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident. Jason Blum is the smartest man in Hollywood today. He’s the only man who get is. He has such a strong business model that he’s guaranteed […]
Film4 FrightFest 2015 Review – Tales of Halloween (2015)
Tales of Halloween, 2015 Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Adam Gierasch, Andrew Kasch, Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez, Dave Parker, Ryan Schifrin, John Skipp, Paul Solet SYNOPSIS: Ten stories are woven together by their shared theme of Halloween night in an American suburb, where ghouls, imps, aliens and axe murderers appear for one […]